Originally Posted by Retroman69

Some beautiful examples on here!
Growing up in the 70s-80s I spent summers at my aunts place in New Mexico. They were out in the desert and nothing for a kid to do back then, so pulled her old Raleigh 3-speed bike down from the rafters and replaced the tires and cables from parts at a dusty little local bike shop and explored all over back roads and railroad bridges on that thing. It was bliss, just me, the sea foam green Raleigh and the vast desert sky.
To this day I still get misty-eyed seeing vintage 3-speed bikes.